Crime, Media, Culture

Aims & Scope

Crime, Media, Culture is a fully peer reviewed, international journal providing the primary vehicle for exchange between scholars who are working at the intersections of criminological and cultural inquiry.

It promotes a broad cross-disciplinary understanding of the relationship between crime, criminal justice, media and culture.

The journal explores a range of media forms (including traditional media, new and alternative media, and surveillance technologies) and has a special focus on cultural criminology and its concerns with image, representation, meaning and style.

While CMC embraces submissions across a range of research perspectives and methodological orientations, CMC encourages especially work that develops cultural, critical, and qualitative understandings of the crime, media, culture nexus The journal invites papers in three broad substantive areas: The relationship between crime, criminal justice and media forms (including traditional media, new and alternative media, and surveillance technologies) The relationship between criminal justice and cultural dynamics (with a special focus on cultural criminology and its concerns with image, representation, meaning and style) The intersections of crime, criminal justice, media forms and cultural dynamics (including historical, political, situational, spatial, subcultural and cross-cultural intersections).

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.9
2024	1.70

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	7335

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	259

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.754

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	49

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• ‘Binge’ drinking, British alcohol policy and the new culture of intoxication

  Citation: 376

  Authors: Fiona, Kevin

• On the concept of moral panic

  Citation: 298

  Authors: David

• The ‘chav’ phenomenon: Consumption, media and the construction of a new underclass

  Citation: 173

  Authors: Keith, Majid

• Gang talk and gang talkers: A critique

  Citation: 157

  Authors: Simon, Tara

• Justice and revenge in online counter-publics: Emerging responses to sexual violence in the age of social media

  Citation: 140

  Authors: Michael

• ‘The body does not lie’: Identity, risk and trust in technoculture

  Citation: 130

  Authors: Katja Franko

• From geek masculinity to Gamergate: the technological rationality of online abuse

  Citation: 112

  Authors: Michael

• Dick pics on blast: A woman’s resistance to online sexual harassment using humour, art and Instagram

  Citation: 109

  Authors: Laura, Fairleigh

• A green-cultural criminology: An exploratory outline

  Citation: 101

  Authors: Avi, Nigel

• Criminology and the narrative turn

  Citation: 96

  Authors: Lois

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